Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order.

Georg Bruun, Aarhus University.

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Towards a general theory for pyrochlores: dimensional reduction, ground-state selection and new emergent electromagnetism

Ludovic Jaubert.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 June 2013, 15:00-16:30

Instantaneous Mapping of Excitonic Transport in Biomimetic Systems by Multi-dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

Prof. Elad Harel, Department of Chemistry: Northwestern University (USA)..

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:15-17:15

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Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications

Dr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory).

TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 03 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors

Anton Akhmerov, University of Leiden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 18 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture

Dr. Pietro Massignan, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 December 2011, 14:15-15:15

Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteins

Prof. Chin-Kun Hu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 31 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Prof F D M Haldane, Princeton University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 27 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

The topology of smectics

Prof. Randy Kamien, Physics Department, University of Pennsylvania.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 14 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Atom-dimer and dimer-dimer scattering in fermionic mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonance

Jesper Levinsen, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Domain wall in a chiral p-wave superconductor: Majorana fermions and their transport properties

Dr Benjamin Beri, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Layered Systems of Cold Polar Molecules

Nikolaj Zinner, University of Aarhus.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

The Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity

Kristian Baumann, ETH Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Marginal Fermi liquid behaviour and competing orders with topological characteristics in bilayer graphene.

Rahul Nandkishore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 July 2010, 15:30-16:30

Critical parameters from generalised multifractal analysis at the Anderson transition

Dr Alberto Rodriguez (Warwick).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cells

This talk is jointly organised with TCM

Dr. Martin Falcke, Mathematical Cell Physiology, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

Seminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

TCM Informal Seminar Series

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Canceled

Prof. Pawel Hawrylak, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron Nematics

Joint TCM/QM seminar - note non-standard time.

Prof. Erica Carlson, Purdue University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 06 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Influence of Thermal Order Parameter Fluctuations on the Spectral Function of 2D Superconductors

Prof. Alexei Tsvelik, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Optics Experiments with Multiple Qubits and Multiple Photons in Superconducting Electronic Circuits

Johannes Fink (ETH, Zurich).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 December 2009, 14:30-15:30

Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates from attraction between spin vortices

Prof. Lu Yu (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

Kinetics and Bose-Einstein condensation of parametrically driven magnons at RT.

Prof. Sergej Demokritov, Muenster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Simplifying the theory of the Invar effect in iron-nickel alloys

Chris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 August 2009, 15:30-16:30

Electronic Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the Iron Pnictides

Qimiao Si, Rice University, Texas.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

What is the momentum of a photon propagating in a medium?

Prof. Steve Barnett, University of Strathclyde.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Heterogeneities in granular media

Prof. Anita Mehta, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Can the thermal conductivity of semiconductors be controlled by impurities?

Stefan K. Estreicher, Physics Department, Texas Tech University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 June 2009, 15:30-16:30

Title to be confirmed

Note time

Prof. Gerald Mahan, Penn State University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

TCM Journal Club

Local density of states of electron-crystal phases in graphene in the quantum Hall regime

Oleksandr Poplavskyy (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 May 2009, 16:00-16:30

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Understanding liquids and glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions

Note changed time

Dr Kostya Trachenko (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Glasses, Jamming and Spin Glasses

Prof. Mike Moore FRS, University of Manchester..

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Bogdan Mihaila, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 May 2009, 15:30-16:30

Superfluidity and other quantum fluid effects of microcavity polaritons

Joint TCM/AMOP/NP seminar

Dr Alberto Amo, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

Layered Kondo lattice model for novel quantum critical compound beta-YbAlB4

Dr Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rutgers University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 12 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Criticality, the Alpha/Delta Puzzle, and Dual Vacua

Joint TCM/QM Seminar

Prof George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

Patterns of co-existing order parameters and universal escapeway to the magnetic quantum critical point

Prof. Georgios Varelogiannis, National Technical University of Athens.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Physics at the kitchen

Note time and location

Prof. Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 29 September 2008, 14:30-15:30

Dynamics of 1d quantum liquids

Prof. Alex Kamenev.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 01 July 2008, 11:15-12:15

SU(2) gauge theory, the Berry phase and spintronics

Prof. Stewart Barnes, University of Miami.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Long wavelength spin dynamics of ferrromagnetic condensates

Prof. Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Dynamics in the Thermodynamic Limit

Dr Jasper van Wezel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 09 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Breaking the Protein Amino Acid Code (aka the Code of Life)

Note unusual time

J. C. Phillips, Rutgers.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 May 2008, 15:30-16:30

An analytical approach to a model of spin interactions in quartic wells

Dr Godfrey Akpojotor, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Bound states of 2D electrons induced by the spin-orbit interaction

Prof A.V.Chaplik, Semiconductors Physics Institute, Novosibirsk.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphite

Igor Luk'yanchuk, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 03 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birth

Dima Khmelnitskii ( TCM.).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2008, 15:30-16:30

A Numerical Renormalization Group for Continuum One Dimensional Systems

Robert Konik, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 10 December 2007, 14:15-15:15

Phenomena in cold exciton gases

Joint TCM/OE seminar

Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

The non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in microcavity polariton systems

Dr. Iacopo Carusotto, INFM-CNR, Universita di Trento.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 September 2007, 14:15-15:15

Density-functional perturbation theory goes time dependent: from static properties, to lattice vibrations, up to optical excitations

Prof. Stefano Baroni, DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center Trieste.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

Cold and dense dipolar exciton quantum fluids in two dimensions.

Dr. Ronen Rapaport, Bell Labs.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Na_x Co O_2: What's going on at high doping

Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 04 December 2006, 16:00-17:00